New Penguin FS book podcast

Subject: New Penguin FS book podcast
From: SteveMansfield
Date: 05 Jun 12 - 12:44 PM

The Guardian books podcast this week features The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, with Steve Roud talking about the new edition and Rachel Unthank singing some of the songs from the old and new editions.

Starts at 15:23 in the podcast: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2012/jun/01/royalty-english-literature-folk-song-podcast.

Subject: RE: New Penguin FS book podcast
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 05 Jun 12 - 04:11 PM

other folksongbooks take note!

Subject: RE: New Penguin FS book podcast
From: Richard from Liverpool
Date: 05 Jun 12 - 07:46 PM

An interesting listen, thank you for posting. I had the pleasure of meeting Steve Roud at a desk in the VWML once, was great to thank him for all his work, although I'm not entirely sure I convinced him that more football songs needed to be allocated Roud numbers! Ah well